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Football Survivor

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Football Survivor Pools

Pick one team each week!

Survivor Pools - This is the game where you pick one team a week, and you advance if they win or get eliminated if they lose. You can’t pick the same team twice, by default, but there are many options that allow you to customize it just how you like. You can even use college teams if you prefer. One week free trial—there is no obligation, so set up a Survivor pool today!

Select Pro or College

Most all football survivor pools use NFL teams but you can use College teams too. When you choose College you also select the teams that will be availabe to pick.

NFL Teams

College Teams

College & Pro Teams

You will have to select the teams to include later. That step is not included in the wizard.

Select Winners or Losers

Pick a winner each week (Survivor Pool) or a loser (Loser Pool).

Most pools are set to pick winners but you can optionally set it to pick losers instead.
We call that a Loser Pool.

Pick Winners

Pick Losers

Select Strikes Allowed

Normally it's Single Elimination (1 strike and you're out).

Most pools are set to Single Elimination. But for smaller groups, say 30 or less, you might want to allow 1 or 2 strikes (double or triple elimination).

Strikes Allowed

Turn On Revive All

When everyone loses in the same week.

Say you're down to 3 survivors and all 3 get eliminated in the same week. You could call it a tie or you could revive the 3 left and let them continue on. Check the box below if you want the website to do this reviving automatically. (You can revive manually too.)

Yes, Revive All Automatically

Select Pick Restrictions

Pick a team only once?

Most pools are set to pick a team Only Once but you can set it to twice or unlimited.

Pick A Team...

There are advanced restrictions not included in the wizard that you can set later, like Pick Against A Team and Max Point Spread.

Reset Teams In Playoffs

Make it so all teams are available to pick again in the playoffs.

If your pool continues into the playoffs, set it up so that the regular season picks don't count for your team restrictions.

Reset Teams In Playoffs

There are a few options for playoffs. You can call it a tie and end the pool. You can manually change the pick restrictions from pick a team only once to pick a team only twice or unlimited. You can reset the teams (this option). Or you can do nothing and keep the regular season settings.

Turn On Auto Picks

When people miss the pick deadline.

When people miss the pick deadline, you can have the website enter a pick for them. We call this an "auto pick". The auto pick will be entered right after your pick deadline passes and it will only choose a team that hasn't played their game and would have otherwise been available to pick.

Auto Pick Option

You can restrict the number of weeks that a person can get an auto pick. You may not want to allow people to rely on auto picks all year and this setting can fix that.

Auto Pick Weeks Allowed

Decide If Ties Lose or Win

Ties count as a strike by default.

When an NFL game ends in a tie, do you want the picks on that game to be counted as a win or a loss?

Ties Lose

Ties Win

Add Bye Pick

Make the game easier

You can make the game easier by giving each player one BYE pick which they can use once in any week they choose. When they use their BYE pick they automatically advance to the next week. It's always a win.

Allow 1 Bye Pick

Select Start Week

Select the week that you want your pool to start.

People normally start their pools in NFL Week 1 but you can start them anytime.

Select Start Week

Name Your Pool

Make it yours

Pool Name:

You can name your pool anything you like. And since you can use your pool year after year, it's best not to include a year in the name. Descriptive names that your friends will recognize are best, like "Roger's Pick'em" or "Denver Confidence".

Pool Manager

As the pool manager, you'll be in charge of the settings, rules and inviting people to join. Sometimes people set up pools by mistake, so we have this question to try to prevent issues.

Yes, I want to be in charge of the group.

Please acknowledge that you want to be the pool manager by checking the box. Sometimes people start a new pool by mistake which is why we want to confirm it.

Multiple Football Survivor Pools?

You have at least one other Football Survivor Pool

Just double checking. You are already the manager of a Football Survivor Pool. Most managers just restart the same pool year after year and they only have one. It's okay to have more than one. Are you sure you want to create another Football Survivor Pool?

Yes, I want to manage multiple Football Survivor Pools.

Please acknowledge that you want to manage more than 1 pool by checking the box. Sometimes people start a new pool by mistake which is why we want to confirm it.

Website Fee

We charge a fee for using our site.

The season fee to use our website for Football Survivor is $1 per entry with a minimum of $20 which covers the first 20 entries. For example, if you have 18 entries, the cost will be $20. If you have 40 entries, the cost will be $40. If the Survivor pool ends and is restarted during the same season then another payment is required.

There is no obligation and you will have free trial period to test out the site before having to pay.

Entertainment Only

You are not allowed to use our site for gambling.

Please acknowledge:

My pool is for Entertainment Only

Please check the box to acknowledge that your pool is for Entertainment Only and not for gambling.

Create Your Pool

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